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In this paper we examine the main challenges in promoting an effective market economy. While the paper ranges widely across the spectrum of economic institutions and policies, the central theme is the importance of macroeconomic stability for economic growth in the medium and long run....
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This Paper studies the effects of fiscal policy on GDP, inflation and interest rates in five OECD countries, using a … plausible values of its price elasticity, government spending typically has small effects on inflation. 6) Both the decline in …
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corrects the average debt bias, inflation, which is attuned to the Union-average debt level, is more stable. …
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distortions (and, hence, high inflation) is admitted into a monetary union once its economic structure has converged sufficiently … the union again later, convergence stops for a while after the high inflation country has joined. With irreversible …
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government's budget, especially the roles played by taxes and subsidies. This paper reviews the Hungarian fiscal situation in …
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Cross-country evidence on inflation and inequality suggests that they are positively correlated. I explore the …
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Since World War II, direct stock ownership by households has largely been replaced by indirect stock ownership by financial institutions. We argue that tax policy is the driving force. Using long time-series from eight countries, we show that the fraction of household ownership decreases with...
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transparent and non-transparent regimes are compared to each other and to the corresponding cases of inflation targeting … volatility of inflation, output and interest rate. We analyze the effect of higher inflation targets and large expectational …
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We study the channels of interstate risk sharing in Germany for the time period 1970 to 2006, estimating the degrees of smoothing of a shock to a state’s gross domestic product by factor markets, the government sector, and credit markets, respectively. Within the government sector, we pay...
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linking interest rates to forecasts of future inflation. Such rules have been found to give rise to aggregate fluctuations due … properties of interest-rate rules whereby the central bank responds to a measure of past inflation. The consensus view that has … inflation are likely to ensure global stability provided that the coefficient on lagged interest rates is greater than unity. …
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